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Article: Carnivorous prophets.(On the Right)(presidential candidates)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 26, 2004
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New York, December 30.
There is a great flurry on the question, Should competing presidential candidates speak about the weaknesses of other contenders? Howard Dean is at the center of the controversy because he chewed out Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic chairman. He told McAuliffe he should have used his good offices to get the other candidates to shut up about him. Everybody is now mad at everybody else but mostly at Dean. One mostly gets mad at front-runners.
I contribute an experience: In July 1987, I brought together in Houston all the Democratic candidates for president, for their first joint appearance. I enlisted as co-host Robert Strauss, who ...